PASS Summit 2014 is fast approaching and in today’s IT Time special, Blain Barton welcomes Jennifer Moser, Lara Rubbelke, Ann Bachrach and Thomas LaRock to the show as they discuss the big event. Get tuned in on all of this year’s major happenings, big announcements, sessions, networking and…

Power BI includes new technologies in Excel that include Power Query, Power Map, Power View and Power Pivot. The files for this presentation are here: http://sdrv.ms/1a2xTDj (Hurricane Sandy, Napoleon, Hans Rosling) The spreadsheets for Hans Rosling data from http://www.gapminder.org/data are…

Extending IT to Private and Public Cloud Session Objectives and Takeaways: Steps to Cloud SQL Server Appliances for Data warehousing, business intelligence, transaction processing, consolidation and private cloud Public cloud and SQL Azure – how it works, what's next and how our current users take…

New Possibilities in Microsoft Business Intelligence: Power View & PowerPivot Session Objectives and Takeaways: What is Power View, BI Semantic Model, and PowerPivot?Rapid data discovery via Project "Crescent" and PowerPivotLearn about Power View's key capabilitiesCredible, consistent…

In this episode Symon interviews Robert Reynolds (Principal Program Manager Lead) and Walter Oliver (Senior Program Manager) on the Windows Azure Pack (WAP) team, to discuss how WAP can be extended to 3rd party systems. The Windows Azure pack is a collection of Microsoft Azure technologies that run…

Join Brad Sutton and Justin Lane as they discuss how Microsoft IT planned for and deployed SQL Server 2014 in their environment. Listen in as they chat about scenarios that many IT organizations face today, such as on-premise vs. cloud deployments, as well as best practices and lessons learned from…

Join Brad Sutton and Tom McCleery as they discuss how by incorporating Business Intelligence solutions into the Microsoft IT Solution Delivery organization, MSIT was able to see improved results in overall productivity, governance, security and compliance. Tune in for a quick overview of what…